Apprentice Boys to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with traditional Derry parade
The Apprentice Boys of Derry will mark St. Patrick’s Day with a parade in Derry.
The loyal order traditionally marches through the city centre on the feast of St. Patrick.
Approximately, 150 people are due to take part in the demonstration with 25 supporters forecast.
The celebrations will be led by the William King Memorial Flute Band.
The St. Patrick’s Day demonstration is expected to leave the Fountain at noon on Tuesday making its way via Carlisle Road and the Diamond onto the Derry Walls and to St. Augustine’s Church.
Apprentice Boys of Derry No Surrender Parent Club will proceed to Society Street via Palace Street and Bishop Street from 1.15pm.
The ‘St. Patrick’s Cross’ is traditionally carried alongside the crimson banner of the Apprentice Boys on St. Patrick’s Day.
St. Patrick’s Cross – a red saltire on a white background – dates from the 1780s when it was adopted as the emblem of British chivalric institution, the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick.